On 10/20/07, Miles O'Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wenji Wu said... > > |I want to profile the system with oprofile, which only requires the vmlinux > |(the uncompressed kernel image). My system has only vlinuz. Are there any > |way that I can convert vmlinuz to vmlinux? > > Some details are here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux > > with reference to a way to do this. > > Is a stripped kernel going to work for you? > If not, you need to get the source and build > one. Or see if there is a kernel-debuginfo > package available for whichever version of > the OS you are running; this should have the > vmlinux you need, unless that has changed > with recent releases.
Thanks for the info. I also wanted to run oprofile with vmlinux and built the kernel for that. But glad to learn kernel-degubinfo is available from: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/archive/debuginfo/ Akemi
